Subsidies to Purchase Electric Cars will Promote Electric Transport

21 november 2017

"Today, it is necessary to understand what steps are required to develop the charging infrastructure: to adopt administrative incentives, introduce changes into the building regulations, the traffic rules of the power market,” Ms. Victoria Gimadi, the Head of the Department for the Fuel and Energy Sector of the Analytical Center said at the opening of the round table "Measures to support the construction of the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in Russia."

"Currently, the load at charging stations is about 1%, which indicates a
small number of cars," Mr.
Alexander Mitreikin, the Deputy Director of the Department
for State Energy Policy of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation
told. At the same time, introduction of changes to the existing regulatory and
legal framework will not ease the situation and will not allow to actively
develop the charging infrastructure, the expert thinks. "Now, we need to solve
the main problem: which charging infrastructure developing model to choose? The
global experience prompts that there are several ways: direct state
subsidizing, infrastructure creation on account of electric car manufacturers
of energy companies," Mr. Mitreikin told. The expert believes that a mixed
model based on combining all variants will be suitable for Russia.

"To develop the charging infrastructure, it is important to arrange the
interaction of electric grid companies with electric transport owners to
attract co-financing and local governing authorities for state stimulation of
the industry development,"
Mr. Gennadiy Sidenko, the Director of the Department of
Organization and Reconstruction and Technical Development of Moscow United
Power Grid Company, PJSC believes. Also, according to the expert, it is
necessary to test the charging station network by placing such stations at
parkings, which will provide access to them for private electric car
owners.

"The distribution of electric transport is possible only with introduction
of subsidies to buy electric cars",
Ms. Iya Gordeeva, CEO of AuditEnergo Group, LLC thinks.
Also, the expert believes that a good incentive will include free use of lanes
for route vehicles and city transport, free parkings, reduced tariffs for toll
roads, establishment of a mandatory share of electric vehicles for publicly
owned organizations, and cancellation of transport tax and import levies.

The participants of the discussion also considered different ways to assess
the cost of creating a chain of charging stations and possible ways to
financing it. The specialists noted that it was necessary to establish the
charging infrastructure at building surrounding grounds and to simplify the
procedure for land allocation and execution of approval documents when
constructing such projects.